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The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, September 23, 2024, p. 26
Sri Lanka’s left-wing coalition candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayaka (center) has won the presidential election two years after a severe financial crisis forced unpopular austerity measures into the country, the Election Commission announced yesterday. The 55-year-old winner, leader of the once marginal Marxist People’s Liberation Front (JVP), garnered 42.3 percent of the vote on Saturday. Victory belongs to all of usDissanayaka wrote on social media X. Together, we are ready to rewrite Sri Lanka’s historyhe added.
